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Note: You are purchasing a standalone product; MyWritingLab™ does not come packaged with this content. If you would like to purchase both the physical text and MyWritingLab, search for ISBN-10: 0134072928/ ISBN-13: 9780134072920. That package includes ISBN-10: 0321988272 / ISBN-13: 9780321988270 and ISBN-10: 0133954706 / ISBN-13: 9780133954708. MyWritingLab is not a self-paced technology and should only be purchased when required by an instructor. For courses in English Composition. The gold standard of handbooks – unmatched in accuracy, currency, and reliability The Little, Brown Handbook is an essential reference tool and classroom resource designed to help students find the answers they need quickly and easily. While keeping pace with rapid changes in writing and its teaching, it offers the most comprehensive research and documentation available–with grammar coverage that is second to none. With detailed discussions of critical reading, media literacy, academic writing, and argument, as well as writing as a process, writing in the disciplines, and writing beyond the classroom, this handbook addresses writers of varying experience and in varying fields. Also available with MyWritingLab™ This title is also available with MyWritingLab—an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to engage students and improve results. Within its structured environment, students practice what they learn, test their understanding, and pursue a personalized study plan that helps them better absorb course material and understand difficult concepts.
Series: Little Brown Handbook
Hardcover: 928 pages
Publisher: Pearson; 13 edition (January 9, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0321988272
ISBN-13: 978-0321988270
Product Dimensions: 5.7 x 1.4 x 8.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (221 customer reviews)
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I taught this book for three years at a community college. It was in between using two Diana Hacker books Rules for Writers and the Bedford Handbook. For myself, this book is very comprehensive. If I could, I could have taught the entire course using this text, although our college requires an additional "reader." There are enough sample essays and other pieces in here that the reader portion could be done with this book. Its approach is encyclopedic to grammar, punctuation, usage, and spelling problems. I also found its section on composition essentials very well done, particularly chapter 4 on paragraphs. I found their explanation of how to do MLA papers and research papers in general quite useful.Before we used this textbook, I would usually download supplementary information from net websites on paragraphing and MLA papers to fill in the gap between what students wanted to know and what the textbooks said on these and other subject. However, the Little,Brown Handbook was so full of information, that I did not have to do that during the years I used this book. This is a good book if one is embarking on a serious campaign as a writer. When I was more active as a writer, I found that other writers and copy editors on publications I worked on continually stocked up on such books. These are the best places to look for clarification on problems of grammar, mechanicws, and usage. Surprisingly, even for the experienced degreed writer, what such books say about improving rhetoric or diction is often useful, the basics we can forget easily. As such, even though our college has moved back to Hacker, I will keep it out as a reference for my own writing and editing. Yet, as a text book for an individual composition course, its sixty dollar price, makes the book an outrageous drag on already emptied student pockets. The scandal of the price of university texts needs to be exposed and investigated.
Although intended primarily for students, The Little Brown Handbook is an excellent reference for all nonfiction writers. While writing my own recent book on option pricing, I consulted it often regarding the use of colons, semicolons, dashes, and other fine points of punctuation. It even served as an arbiter of correct grammar and usage in the occasional dispute with my copy editor! Almost everything critical to good writing is covered--from organization, paragraph coherence, and sentence structure, to punctuation, word choice, and issues of style--and in sufficient detail to be useful to the working wordsmith. Guidelines for academic writers, a discussion of the American Psychological Association (APA) style employed in the social sciences, and suggestions for use of the internet in research, also appear in The Little Brown Handbook. All in all, this book should be found near the Strunk and White classic, The Elements of Style, on any writer's bookshelf. I would unhesitatingly recommend it to anyone who writes, either for pleasure or for a living.Jeffrey Owen Katz, Ph.D.Author (With Donna L. McCormick): "Advanced Option Pricing Models" (McGraw Hill, 2005) "The Encyclopedia of Trading Strategies" (McGraw Hill, 2000)
This book and CD set is sold as an ebook with an access code that you do get when you open the packaging. The publisher wants to make sure no one reuses the code, so they also require a "course code" when you go online to gain access to open the ebook. Well, my son was in a high school class that requires the hardback, but not the CD. I thought he lugs around enough heavy textbooks, so I thought I'd spend the extra money for the ebook for him since he carries an iPad, also. Unfortunately the publisher's customer service department was not able to help us gain access to the ebook without this magic "course" code. (Don't know why they don't have a generic one that could be use for just such situations.) Anyway, you don't want to buy this version for the ebook unless your teacher / professor uses the MyCompLab whole set up. The other way the publisher could prevent the reuse of the CD access code they send in the packaging is to issue unique codes on every new CD. Boom. Done. No problem, no "course code" required. How about it, Little, Brown?
Of the several editions of the Little, Brown Handbook I've owned (I buy the odd-numbered editions) and read cover-to-cover over the years, this (11th) edition will answer almost any question you have about writing. My last edition was the 9th and this one is significantly better, with better layout and colors to make every element on the page easier to read, even diacritical marks. Unfortunately, with purchase you are not given access to the companion website[...], and the book's own preface does not recommend the site. Pearson has plastered the website ad in every chapter, in a special section of the book, and on the back cover. Completely unnecessary and no class.If you're going to get an English handbook, start with Little, Brown. But also get the definitive source, The Chicago Manual of Style, which also includes several chapters on punctuation, grammar, and style. Finally, round out your education with Joseph M. Williams' Style: The Basics of Clarity and Grace.
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